More strangeness kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:44PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> rpmbuild -bc --target x86_64 --buildroot /usr/src kernel-2.6.spec
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^
> after installing the kernel source RPM, then some very bad things happen.
> It tries to do an "rm -rf *" inside /usr/src.  Ouch.  That's not right!

yeah don't do that!


> What's the standard way to get the source RPM to unpack into
> /usr/src/kernels
> and build in there?


Any particular reason you want that? (Other than habit, I mean....)

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